The difference is that GPT can convince the teacher that the student is a competent essay-writer, but can’t convince the PE teacher that the student is an NBA player.
Maybe its the quantity, not the quality that makes it desireable to filter it out. I have examples where I’ve filtered highly actual news just because its so taxing to be constantly reminded of it.
Since it is strongly tied into crypto shenanigans, now that we're in a crypto slump the discussions have (mercifully) slowed down. AI is still in its current hype cycle, and it will take some time for the next "winter".
I actually literally just heard the host of the Rust podcast Rustacean Station refer to himself as a professional programmer, and immediately realising how off that sounded, corrected it to «got paid to write code» or something of the sort.